Apeculiarapartmentin Cincinnati, Ohio, is going viral after a woman showed that its carpeted living room area used to house a massiveswimming pool.
TikTok user@vidswLydspiqued everyone’s curiosity when she shared a virtual tour of the unconventional apartment inThe Williams, a 94-year-old building in Walnut Hills that once housed the W.J. Williams YMCA.
HighlightsA woman discovered an apartment built inside a renovated swimming pool in Cincinnati, Ohio.The apartment contains original pool features like tiles, a ladder, and signs reading “shallow” and “do not swim alone”.The Williams building, constructed in the late 1920s, is on the National Register of Historic Places and once housed the W.J. Williams YMCA.
The video shows the formerswimming poollined with tiles and a walking rail around it.
“I can’t decide if that’s the coolest thing ever or if it’s really weird,” @vidswLyds said in the video.
TikTok user @vidswLyds shared a virtual tour of an unconventional apartment in The Williams, a 94-year-old building in Ohio
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“You have people over, and they’re like, ‘You live in a pool?’ I don’t know, why is that kind of cool?”
In addition to the tiles and ladder, the 2100-square-foot apartment contains signs reading “shallow” on the walls and “do not swim alone” in the upstairs area.
Therenovated residencefeatures a kitchen attached to the former recreational area. Above is a loft area that could be used as a bedroom. There are also one-and-a-half bathrooms in the apartment, which has access to a rooftop deck.
According toCity Center Properties, which owns the building, two apartments in The Williams are built inside a swimming pool.
The building once housed the W.J. Williams YMCA and its massive swimming pool
The pool-turned-apartment is listed from $1635 to $2775 on the City Center Propertieswebsite.
In 2016, The Williams joined the National Register of Historic Places and Cincinnati’s list of local historic landmarks.
The historic building also features apartments that appear to have been built inside anold basketball court.
The four-story Tudor Revival building, later called the W.J. Williams YMCA, reflected a design popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The upper floors of the building initially featured a dormitory for 68 residents, as perThe Enquirer.
Watch a virtual tour of the swimming pool-turned-apartment below:
“If they redid the floors, I would be sold, but there’s no way we’re keeping the YMCA tile,” said one TikTok user.
“I think it would be cooler if they did a better job on the renovation,” another person agreed.
“This has really sinister vibes. I can’t put my finger on it,” a third commenter added.
The renovated residence features a kitchen attached to the former recreational area and an upstairs loft area that could be used for a bedroom
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A separate user praised the apartment, writing, “Sunken living room and extra chilling space around the pool. Could be a dope set up.”
“It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!” another commented, to which @vidswLyds confessed, “I’d playYMCAevery day if I lived there.”
“I love it. It’s a great use of space. I wish someone would turn abandoned office space & malls into condos,” an additional user said.
The former swimming pool, now a carpeted living room area, is still lined with tiles and has a walking rail around it
The largeswimming poolis one of many unlikely spaces that have been transformed into a home. In 2019, a man named Sampson Dahl moved intoa former laundromatin Queens, New York.
“In a place that values commercial success and economic growth, it’s rare to be able to enjoy stasis in a place like this,” the young man explained. Before that, he used to live in a warehouse in Chicago.
In addition to the tiles and ladder, the 2100-square-foot apartment contains signs reading “shallow” on the walls and “do not swim alone” in the upstairs area
The unique apartment is listed from $1635 to $2775 on the City Center Properties website
Furthermore, Jazz, a 25-year-old single mom from the UK who is facing soaring rent costs, transformed adouble-decker businto a home for herself and her five-year-old son.
In February, the resourceful mom from Cornwall, UK, shared clips of herself building, remodeling, demolishing, and assembling pieces for her and her son’s future home.
“It’d be cooler if they did a better job on the renovation,” a TikTok user wrote
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